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May. 29, 2008 | 13:38 PDT | 20:38 UTC
Phoenix sol 4 press briefing: unstowed arm, full panorama, and weather
So I anticipated last night two of the main messages of today's press briefing: the completion of the initial reconnaissance panorama, which was taken in only one color and at a quarter the full resolution of Phoenix' camera, and the successful... More»
May. 29, 2008 | 09:46 PDT | 16:46 UTC
Carnival of Space #56
It's Thursday, so it's time for a Space Carnival, hosted this week at the Lifeboat Foundation Blog. Check it out! For some reason it took the page a very long time to load for me -- perhaps they weren't prepared for the traffic.
I'll also point... More»
May. 29, 2008 | 09:18 PDT | 16:18 UTC
Dawn Journal
It's time to start getting back to a little non-Phoenix news. It'll take me a couple of days to get back up to speed on other missions, but in the meantime, here's another Dawn Journal entry, contributed by Marc Rayman. Marc is the Project System... More»
May. 28, 2008 | 23:01 PDT | May. 29 06:01 UTC
A full panorama and an unstowed arm
A late-night check of the Phoenix image website shows that not only did Phoenix succeed in acquiring all the rest of the images for its first full panorama today, but it also successfully downlinked them all to Earth. Without further ado:Click to... More»
May. 28, 2008 | 15:25 PDT | 22:25 UTC
Messages from Earth
That image of the Phoenix DVD sitting calmly on Mars has been getting quite a lot of play across the Internet today, including on the home pages of NASA and the Phoenix mission at the University of Arizona.Click to enlarge >Visions of Mars, on... More»
May. 28, 2008 | 12:30 PDT | 19:30 UTC
Highlights from the Phoenix Sol 3 press conference
Want to know what time it is for Phoenix? If you use iGoogle there are now two different "Google Gadgets" you can use. Simon Porter's Mars Sundial gives you Mars Time Coordinate (MTC, like UTC for Earth), solar longitude (a measure of the season,... More»
May. 27, 2008 | 16:03 PDT | 23:03 UTC
HiRISE images of the Phoenix landing site
Here are some of today's images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing Phoenix sitting squarely on the surface. (The coordinates of that spot I now know to be 68.218830N 234.250778E, using the IAU 2000 Areocentric coordinate system -- thanks,... More»
May. 27, 2008 | 15:05 PDT | 22:05 UTC
A little update on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's radio
We just got an update on the status of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's UHF radio, the one they use to communicate with Phoenix, which malfunctioned this morning. They apparently just pinged the radio, and found that it still was not working normally.... More»
May. 27, 2008 | 13:51 PDT | 20:51 UTC
Phoenix Sol 2 press conference, in a nutshell
Let's see if I can hit the high points of today's press conference before I start filling in all the details.First, the bad news: there was some kind of anomaly on the UHF radio that Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter uses to communicate with Phoenix. As... More»
May. 27, 2008 | 13:24 PDT | 20:24 UTC
Ustream chat at 14:00 PDT / 21:00 UTC
I'll try to get these notices up earlier in the future -- I've been having a very hard time getting to everything in a timely fashion this week! Hopefully the Phoenix mission will settle down to a comfortable routine soon and I'll be able to come... More»
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